Jay Goble

Jay Goble enters his 11th season as head coach of the Baylor women’s golf program in 2021-22.

Goble has built Baylor into one of the nation’s top programs, leading the Bears to unprecedented heights over his first decade in Waco.

Goble has coached the only 10 All-Americans in program history, led Baylor to its first conference championship, first NCAA?Regional title, first No. 1 national ranking, and the only three top-10 NCAA?Championship finishes in program history. He’s led the Bears to 18 team tournament championships and 15 individual tournament titles over his first ten seasons.

Five of Goble’s teams have advanced to the NCAA?Championship, and in two other seasons the Bears came up one and two strokes short, respectively. All told, Baylor has advanced to eight of nine possible NCAA Regionals and five of eight possible NCAA Championships during Goble’s tenure.

Additionally, Goble has coached ten different players to 14 total Big 12 All-Tournament Team honors and seven different players to a total of 10 All-Big 12 team selections. He coached the program’s first Big 12 Player of the Year and twice guided BU players to Big 12 Freshman of the Year recognition. Five Baylor players have won six total Big 12 Golfer of the Month awards during his tenure. He’s had 24 different players named to the Academic All-Big 12 Team a total of 50 times with at least five honorees each year over his first nine seasons, and 12 different players have earned WGCA?All-American Scholar Team recognition a total of 24 times. At least one Bear has been named a WGCA All-American Scholar in each of Goble’s first nine seasons, including multiple selections in each of the last seven years.

Baylor has recorded top-10 finishes in three of the last five NCAA Championships, including a runner-up finish in 2015, a tie for fifth place in 2017 and a tie for eighth place in 2018. Those were the only top-10 NCAA Championship finishes in program history.

In 2020-21 BU rose to No. 1 in the country for the first time in program history on the strength of five-straight wins part of a school-record six wins on the season. The Bears set two tournament scoring records in 2020-21. They shot a seven-under 833 to open the season at the Schooner Fall Classic. They bested that mark a couple months later with a 38-under par 826 at the Lone Star Invitational.

Gurleen Kaur was named a Golfweek All-American becoming just the second three-time All-American in program history. Kaur was also named to the All-Big 12 Team, joining freshman Britta Snyder on the 2021 team.

Goble’s 2019-20 squad was ranked No. 20 nationally and on its way to a likely fourth consecutive NCAA Regional appearance when the season was cut short on March 13 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Bears finished in the top-half of the field in all eight tournaments, including a title at the SMU/DAC Invitational, where Diane Baillieux won her career-first medalist honor.